Watch: Pope Francis meets bishops in Indonesia after warning against religious extremism

Pope Francis meets bishops, priests and young people during his visit to Jakarta, Indonesia, on Wednesday 4 September.

The pontiff today urged political leaders in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country to guard against religious extremism, which he said distorted people’s religious beliefs through “deception and violence”.

In his first speech during an ambitious 12-day journey across Southeast Asia, where Christians are a small minority of the regional population, the pope said the Catholic Church would increase its efforts toward inter-religious dialogue in hopes of helping tamp down extremism.

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